Sunday, 6 July 2014

ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD


On This Day in Weird...

1734: Missionary Hans Poulsen Egede describes a sea serpent sighted from his ship, passing the coast of Greenland. According to his log, Egede "saw a most terrible creature, resembling nothing they saw before. The monster lifted its head so high that it seemed to be higher than the crow's nest on the mainmast. The head was small and the body short and wrinkled. The unknown creature was using giant fins which propelled it through the water. Later the sailors saw its tail as well. The monster was longer than our whole ship."


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